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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Crispin decide to do after he escapes his village?
(a) Go to the big city.
(b) Go to his father.
(c) Go to another country.
(d) Talk to the king.

2. What does the boy tell Father Quinel about the accusations about him?
(a) He thought about stealing.
(b) He did not take much.
(c) He did not steal.
(d) Everything belongs to him anyway.

3. What does Bear begin teaching Crispin the second morning they are together?
(a) How to kill a squirrel.
(b) An instrument.
(c) How to play cards.
(d) How to build a fire.

4. How is the boy at the beginning of the book known?
(a) As Dummy.
(b) As Bear.
(c) As Asta's son.
(d) As Mary's son.

5. What does the man tell Crispin the punishment for theft is?
(a) Hanging.
(b) Cutting off a hand.
(c) Prison for a year.
(d) A public flogging.

6. What does the boy hear he is accused of doing?
(a) Hitting Aycliffe.
(b) Breaking into the manor and stealing.
(c) Being of the devil.
(d) Robbing from the church.

7. What is distinguishing about the person Crispin sees?
(a) They have no clothes on.
(b) The woman is shaking the child and crying.
(c) He is carrying a poleaxe.
(d) He has a bushy red beard.

8. Why does the boy move towards a clearing?
(a) To see who is talking.
(b) He thinks he hears Aycliffe.
(c) He needs more light to see where he is.
(d) He thinks he hears a wolf.

9. With what does the man threaten Crispin?
(a) A beating.
(b) Taking him to his father.
(c) To take him back to Crispin's village.
(d) Tying him up and leaving him to starve.

10. What does Aycliffe say to the man?
(a) That Crispin's mother left him money.
(b) That Crispin is Furnival's son.
(c) Something about a great danger.
(d) That a rebellion is underway.

11. Where is the man going when Crispin meets him?
(a) Great Wexley.
(b) Birmingham.
(c) London.
(d) Wellington.

12. What does Aycliffe demand from the boy?
(a) All of his possessions.
(b) His ox.
(c) Ten percent of his field earnings.
(d) Fourteen shrillings.

13. What does Aycliffe do when he sees the boy?
(a) He shouts.
(b) He throws a rock at him.
(c) He ignores him.
(d) He grabs his arm.

14. What is a wolf's head?
(a) A person who anyone can kill like an animal.
(b) A type of beer.
(c) The mark on the coins.
(d) A tavern in Crispin's village.

15. What time is it when the boy wakes up?
(a) Night-time.
(b) Midnight.
(c) Late evening.
(d) Dawn.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Crispin decide to do after seeing inside a house?

2. Where does Bear say he and Crispin are going?

3. What is the village Bear and Crispin reach?

4. What does Crispin see in one of the houses in the village?

5. What does Crispin think is his fault?

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